Red Eye is supposedly incredible

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 5:56pm

I heard from an inside source who saw this movie already (it comes out tomorrow) that it's the sweetest surprise of the summer. Wes Craven is back in fine shape. She says this is the best thriller in a long while. She highly reccomends it which is very unusual of her to do. I can't wait.

[suddenlyseymour]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 5:58pm

yeah i can't wait to see it yay for cillian murphy!

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 5:59pm

She says he's very good and wonderfully creepy...McAdams is supposed to deliver yet another tour de force performance.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 6:02pm

and 'Life & Style' gives it ***1/2 stars...

RED EYE
Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy

Flying's scary enough as it is. This claustrophobic, crowd-pleasing thriller perfectly captures the nightmare of air travel -- stomach-churning turbulence, obnoxious fellow passengers, endless delays -- and cranks it up a notch. On a night flight home to Miami, hotel manager Lisa (Wedding Crashers' McAdams, solidifying her "It" girl status) is held hostage by a seemingly charming guy (Murphy, as creepy here as he was in Batman Begins) with an ultimatum: Help set up one of her VIP hotel guests for assassination...or her dad dies.


BUCKLE UP:
It's a familiar premise, but setting it on a plane makes it feel surprisingly fresh: No matter how hard Lisa fights back, there's simply no escape. Director Wes Craven (Scream), at his best here, builds the tension slowly and never lets up. There are lapses in logic, and the ending could come from any slasher flick, but for heart-stopping suspense and pure entertainment, don't miss this Red Eye.


THE VERDICT:
A thrilling white-knuckle flight.
3 1/2 stars (out of 4)

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 6:06pm

Yeah, I want to see this one. Looks like a tidy, fun little thriller.

[suddenlyseymour]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 6:07pm

woohoo!! that review sounds a lot like some other reviews i've read, this movie should be gooood

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 6:10pm

I am SOOO excited! I CAN'T wait to see it and see Cillian!! Gahhhh!!!!

[shira467]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 6:10pm

I can't wait for this!

[Pinguin]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 6:42pm

I'm totally on the Cillian Murphy kick -watched intermission recently and love him in both 28 days later and batman. Can't wait for this flick!

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 6:54pm

Its 85% fresh on rottentomatoes. It seems to be doing much better critically then I imagined it would. A "B+" in EW...I wonder what People, The Post, and the NY Times will have to say about it...I usually agree with Lisa Rozen's reviews in People...

I have a feeling this will be the summer's late big sleeper (March of the Penguins aside).

I can't wait!!!! I keep watching the trailer...it's so intense but you can't look away! LOL...

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 11:41pm

I'm seeing it on Sunday and I too am looking forward to it. After the disappointment of Skeleton Key, this better be good. Still, if it's not, there's always Flightplan.....

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 8/19/05 at 2:25am

Another one of my friends saw it (a midnight showing someplace) and just got off the phone with me.

She said it was absolutley wonderful. She highly, HIGHLY reccomends it and calls it the best surprise at the movies in years. She says that everything meshes together splendidly and Cillian is incredibly creepy with so many layers of anger, hatred, and pure evil that he has developed for his character. He is dry with a raw sense of acting that seems so natural and real and makes the character of Jackson seem like someone you actually could be sitting next to on a plane. She said Rachel is absolutley flawless yet again, delivering a wonderfully entertaining, frightened, awesome performance, and like Cillian, she brings tons of "isms" and layers to the role that make her character seem real and flawed but somehow whole somewhere inside. She said the ending is a bit cliched and while it is heart-pounding (she won't tell me but Im guessing its some sort of a chase scene), it falls a bit short and it turns a teeny bit predictable in the last 10 minutes. She said Wes Craven is finally getting his groove back in the thriller genre and has leaped on, tackled, and conquered a new quest for him: a non-gory, not-so-much-horror, film. The direction is seamless.

She said the script is wonderfully fast paced and raw, making the lines seem like something you could hear from someone sitting next to you attempting to kill your father (sounds funny but she says its true). She said thats the main thing that works about this movie is that it is a rare, mainstream thriller with scenes and lines and characters that seem almost real. Like the lines and the delivery of the lines in particular seem like you could hear them coming out of someones mouth rather than attempting to be incredible, long passages or whatever you probably would never hear. And while most thrillers try to do that, this one actually DOES it. It conquers a primal fear because of its realness and rawness. Most thriller scripts now a days seem to be chock full of lines like that but those scripts arent trying to be such. They just are because the screenplay writer doesnt care so much about the characters but the person (dont know his/her name) who wrote this screenplay does and gives them those raw and dry-cut lines to deal with because he/she wants them to seem like real people who you would ask for the time on the street or accidentally brush shoulders with. She told me to say all that LOL. She gives it four stars. I cannot wait for this movie!!!

It may seem like Im plugging it but Im not LOL...I just cant wait for it!!

Posted: 8/19/05 at 8:57am

Dang...

guess tonight after Gypsy will be seeing the late of 40 yr virgin and tomorrow after Gypsy will be seeing Red Eye.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 8/19/05 at 11:37am

The very tough Miss Stephanie Zacharek in Salon.com:

Wes Craven's "Red Eye" uses nothing more novel or innovative than the stock vocabulary of thrillers: jolts that make you leap out of your seat or yell out loud (I did both at one point or another), or deliberately paced sequences where stalker and prey do a canny cat-and-mouse dance. You'll recognize every one of Craven's heirloom tropes -- and so what? They're the very source of the rippling pleasures the movie has to offer. With "Red Eye" Craven plays us like an orchestra of violins, and most of the fun comes from our own recognition that we're responding exactly as he wants us to. We fall for his tricks, and then laugh at ourselves for doing so -- punk'd! "Red Eye" doesn't just stick to the basics -- it reminds us why they still matter.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 8/19/05 at 3:30pm

People Magazine gives it 3 1/2 stars, raving about Murphy and McAdams as well as the movie itself. It's this week's 'CRITICS PICK'

[Michelleruth2]

Posted: 8/19/05 at 4:17pm

I am going tonight with a couple of friends.

Posted: 8/20/05 at 3:48am

I saw it tonight.. Love it. It's definitely good, I wouldn't say "incredible". The ending is predictable (of course Rachael wins), but everything else is good. I didn't read this thread until now, only because I didn't want to it to be ruined, or have high expectations.

The acting is great. Rachael is perfect, Cillian is perfect, even the little girl with a handfull of lines was perfect. The group of people I saw it with was a good crowd. We clapped when Rachael did a good thing, booed Cillian and all that. Very fun.

Yeah.. Everyone go see it.

[itsmeeeee]

Posted: 8/20/05 at 4:04am

Just saw it. Rachel McAdams was supreme. very hot. Cillian Murphy is painful to look at. And is creepy. So i guess thats the way it is supposed to be. good for him.

Posted: 8/20/05 at 4:15am

What? You didn't like Cillian? His eyes are so dreamy. I loved looking at him.

I wish he would throw me around in a small airplane's bathroom.
Updated On: 8/20/05 at 04:15 AM

Posted: 8/20/05 at 10:27am

i loved it too! okay so i didnt know it opened yesterday (i dont keep up with this stuff) and we were wondering why there were so many people there. i agree about everything people have said so far, and that little girl was priceless near the end. everyone in the theater liked the movie, we were all having the same reactions such as screaming at the same time and clapping when rachel did something good. it was so funny to hear the whole theater react. i recommend this movie to anyone, i know i'm gonna see it again lol

[FrancisGumm]

Posted: 8/20/05 at 1:31pm

i LOVED it! i might have been a bit biased b/c i adore Rachel McAdams and was excited for this movie for the loongest time and im glad i wasnt disapointed! Cillian Murphy has the best eyes ive ever seen. i wish they made crayons that color. everyone go see it!

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 8/20/05 at 3:21pm

It's a fun little b-grade thriller. Craven's made a career out of this sort of thing and McAdams and Murphy are both big stars on the rise. Nothing remotely extraordinary or innovative but a great example of keeping it simple and focused.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 8/20/05 at 8:54pm

Posted a review yesterday...it WAS incredible...I loved it...the summer's best movie (that Ive seen)...go see it!

[Thenardier]

Posted: 8/20/05 at 9:12pm

Seeing it tonight!

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 8/20/05 at 10:43pm

"Cillian Murphy has the best eyes ive ever seen. i wish they made crayons that color."

:)